Phillip Reeve wrote:
Thats a bit too much honor for it, you simply can't tell great resolution from below average resolution from those resized images.
LuisVlad wrote:
Great landscapes Phillip, great places and great eye. And that 45G is amazing isn’t it…
thanks :-)
I have a difficult relationship with it, on that trip it fit the bill because of its small size and i liked the results quite a bit.
The problem is, that it shows pretty bad bokeh @f/2.0 so i usually choose to take my Minolta MC 50/1.4 with me, which shows pretty good bokeh @f/2.0.
So now i have that Minolta with me, why should i take the g45 with me? The Minolta is better at taking pictures of flowers and will also give me pretty decent infinity shots plus it is much nicer to focus. End result: the g45 stays home most of the time.
snowboarder wrote:
NEX-5N as a birding camera
Yes, who might have thought, but well... it does work sometimes
NEX-7 / CV 90
(handheld and nearly a 100% crop... just went for a walk and was too lazy to pull out a tripod)
Alex
(P.S.: my first post in the forum, so greetings to everyone and thanks for the amazing photos in this thread; just love to look through them) http://album.foto.ru:8080/photos/or/396183/2482197.jpg
Phillip Reeve wrote:
thanks :-)
I have a difficult relationship with it, on that trip it fit the bill because of its small size and i liked the results quite a bit.
The problem is, that it shows pretty bad bokeh @f/2.0 so i usually choose to take my Minolta MC 50/1.4 with me, which shows pretty good bokeh @f/2.0.
So now i have that Minolta with me, why should i take the g45 with me? The Minolta is better at taking pictures of flowers and will also give me pretty decent infinity shots plus it is much nicer to focus. End result: the g45 stays home most of the time.
Well, my Nikon to Nex adapter arrived yesterday, and I´ve been doing some tests, nothing really scientific so not sure if its worthy to put on the web. Right now my working fifties are Nikkors, 50 f1.8 D and 55 f1.2. I never liked de f1.8 bokeh at almost any aperture, but I do really like the f1.2 bokeh at f2, where it behaves acceptable. I know the G45 by design does not have the better bokeh but I do really appreciate its other qualities, it is really as perfect as I can imagine, besides of course the not so perfect bokeh, maybe it´s my inner commercial photographer speaking.
Phillip Reeve wrote:
thanks :-)
I have a difficult relationship with it, on that trip it fit the bill because of its small size and i liked the results quite a bit.
The problem is, that it shows pretty bad bokeh @f/2.0 so i usually choose to take my Minolta MC 50/1.4 with me, which shows pretty good bokeh @f/2.0.
So now i have that Minolta with me, why should i take the g45 with me? The Minolta is better at taking pictures of flowers and will also give me pretty decent infinity shots plus it is much nicer to focus. End result: the g45 stays home most of the time. ...Show more →
i have the same feeling about the g 45 and rokkor MC 50/1.4. i like the rokkor better for bokeh and soft transitons in focus and it is also a very good landscape lens. the g 45 is even better (near perfect) for landscapes, but with ugly bokeh at f/2 and rather harsh rendering for flowers and portraits. i have the tendency to only leave the house with one lens and the camera in my pocket though. this leads me to take the g 45 much more than the rokkor because it is smaller. i think the 40 cron will probably be my first choice now as it is very good for flowers and has interesting/funky but not harsh bokeh wide open and very nice bokeh stopped down. it is probably as good for landscape as the rokkor.
I have actually been pretty impressed with the longer Nikkors I have hooked up. People really look at me funny because they don't even see the C3 tucked behind the 300mm.
Anyways great shots, one and all. I am happy, perhaps like many of you, that NEX system works well with older manual focus telephotos... some really shine...
NEX 3 ISO 400, Nikkor 300mm F4.5 Ai-s, 1/2000, @5.6
Moss Stone by Mawz, on Flickr
NEX-7, 85/2.8 SAM, and I'm still fighting with my sharpening routine in LR, the downsizing (or Flickr) is really killing the detail in this image.
@Herb, the softness of the colors in your flower image is very appealing! Very classic looking photograph.
@taran, the little dude has some crazy hair, I love it! I only wish there was a little more depth of field and you could have gotten the "mother's" head in focus (unless that was your intention).
@thrice, crazy wide, and great perspective! You got there at just the right time.
@tomasg, I really like the transition of colors from red to white to blue in your last shot!
I purchased an NEX 3 for a friend as a gift, but his wife decided he needed a 7 instead, so I now have two NEX cameras, haha. I picked up a relatively inexpensive underwater housing and took it with me when I did my dive certification. I wanted to see 1) how it would do and 2) if underwater photography is something I would enjoy doing before I invest a TON of money into it. I didn't use a flash, and I didn't have a red filter, but it was more about catching the experience than the scenery (although that's what I'm posting here). There had been a lot of storms in Florida in the weeks leading up to my dive, so the water was still a little cloudy as you'll be able to see in the images.
If anyone has any tips for underwater photography, I'm completely open to the help. This was really my first time diving with a camera. Anyone else using their NEX underwater? Hope you enjoy!
Here are even more tulips, just snapped a couple of minutes ago in my garden in the sunny weather. All with the Contarex Carl Zeiss Blitz-Planar 50mm ƒ2.
